Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-07
A SHORT SERMON
8y Rev. John Bones--He Take His Text
From Nahum.

Sy Rev. John Bones--He Take His Text
From Nahum.
the chariots shall rage in the
streets, they Shall jostle against another
IN the broad ways: they shall seem like
torches, they shall run like the light
ming. He shall recount his worthless.
they shall stumble in their walk"
have TOOK my tex from de scriptcr
as recorded in the Sd aud 4th vussus
OF dc 81 chapter Of Nahum, the Elko-
ehite, a good old profit who lived man
years before Billie Murrie. HIS name
comes from two Hebrew words, ..na''
aud ''hum,' %signitying No Home. =
Thus was de holy man Il wanderer up-v
on dc erth, with no place to lay his he'd
and his only biznesS was to 90
round dong good and PROTECTING as to
future events. In de passage we have
took for our tex, he profccise de COM
ing of de railroad cars-not Tom
Lowry's slow boss cars dat trabels no
faster den a man can walk, but in his
visions, or his dreams he sees de COM
inc OF de kars, dc russeling Of de steam
ipgines as de railroad train goes boom
ing and laundering along. De ingine
as it pufs and snorts and smokes like
Il tar kill, should remind you poor I'M
sanctifi.d creatures Oh de lake Oh fire
and birthstone into which you are
Fastening and whar dc most oh you
will fotch up at last. We are told dat
desc kars shall rage IN dc streets,
which is anudder reason for b'lieving
dat Tom Lowry's kars was not thought
OF, for his kars never rage, but 90 long
jes de same-always slow, always be-
hind. De profit widout don't refer to
Jim Hills kars, which dash and splash
along as il dry nltnt bizn,s., running
ober n man hrah ani n chile dar, just
KILN a kuppier about wnnst u week
Again We are told dat de chariots
shell Justle against each udder-dat is,
lie trains shall run into each
udder, jump de trac. bust dc bilers aud
smash things ginerally-dat Is what dc
good old profit ment whom he sed dat
dey should justIe one anuddrr. Some
dark mite when you are ! pokin at some
hen-roost and see "a train 90 by, the
ties from the vinders look like so
many torches. Dis ,"u see now, but
Nahum saw it before it was, and dis is
what we t~hculogians calls proficy
Again, Jim Hill's kars runs like light
nln' now dat dey are not crowded Wild
dead-head passengers
De tex says he shall connt his wor-
,hics. Now who am de WORTHLESS? Dey
are dem who have dun paid DER fare
and are not gaddin' about on free
passes. Desc fellows, we arc told,
shell stumble in der walks Dry are
not drunk, but de- roll n n ,d rockin'
of de kars make dem unsteady in dc
feet. Anudder class of worthless are
dem who pay fare on do train, for dat
helps de conductor 10 buy meet and
bred for his wife and children and fine
jewely TO attract de attention of unsus-
pectin females, who, when dey trabel,
are always tookin' ont for some .dven-
ture wild some I'll lnge man dat has
brass in his fare aud gold and precious
stones about his pnrspn.
Now. | dusrut want any jewelrv, but
! anu powerfully in need of bred and
metc for my wife and six orphan child
rem, SO | shall AK Brudlcr Jones and
Bruddcr Johnson TO pass around De
hat and now hrudderS and i t, r.. II is
de III nest wish Of your beloved pastor
dat you come down like men and VIM
men. Give all you kin to pay for the
gospel, and in do las, day you will
have your reward. While de hat 10
going round well sing two vusSes Of
dat good old hme.
Sitter ID wis viii you meet me,
Ssier DAVIS VIII yol = e' me,
Sister Davis will YOU met me,
ODer In de promise lanot